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culchie

(ˈkʌltʃiː)
n
informal Irish a rough or unsophisticated country-dweller from outside Dublin
[from a local pronunciation of the Mayo town of Kiltimagh]
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Not in my book, but then I'm a thick Mick, oiwnseach (Gaelic female fool), a culchie (village idiot) - not to be confused with a jackeen (a city wide boy).
But don't be surprised by the esteemed author's use of such sentence-stoppers as peelers, squaddie and culchie. Maybe next time his editors will add a wee glossary for noir-loving non-Gaels?" JANE SUMNER
Best described as "culchie comedy" - taking a worringly nostalgic look at rural life in my native Sligo and adapting to big city life in Belfast.
Instead the ridiculous dream sequences have left The Fall on life support as one wag on Facebook branded it "Culchie Casualty".
"It's giving the TV back to the punter - but I don't want any hairy, dirty culchie students watching it!"
Love/Hate star Johnny Ward is fantastic as the car-clamping, Kerry-hating, womanising Dublin footballer Gino Wildes, who controversially becomes smitten with a culchie from The Kingdom - weeks before the All-Ireland final.
One drunken little culchie halfwit even went so far as to claim that this was a student area and that the residents should either like it or lump it.
These culchie fools are disgracing the homes they claim to hold so dear.
But unless they bring some of that legendary Meath madness back to proceedings, they will be bulldozed into culchie rubble.
Chelsea have been the form side, with Hazard taking to the Premier League like a culchie to the ploughing festival and Fernando Torres, Juan Mata and Branislav Ivanovic in cracking form.
by our agriculture correspondent, Culchie McMucker THE ALLIANCE Party has told supporters to vote for former Ulster Farmer's Union leader John Gilliland in next month's European election.